{"id":113,"date":"2022-09-14T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-580968-2763890.cloudwaysapps.com\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:40:28","slug":"fix-public-consultations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/makehousingaffordable.ca\/policy\/fix-public-consultations\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Public Consultations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ottawa\u2019s public consultations on development are broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every new development should not be a political battle, waged between organized NIMBY groups and developers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see the same delegations over and over at city hall and the broader public\u2019s voice is largely ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, we should make zoning broadly more permissive and simpler, to avoid triggering so many unnecessary public fights over new buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for new developments that require public consultations, we must fix the process, so it represents the broader community, and end pointless political fights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we can do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Improve accessibility by continuing to hold online consultations, and advertise consultations to the broader community through social media and paid advertising<\/li><li>Consider future residents your biggest stakeholder \u2014 not existing homeowners in the neighbourhood. They are the ones who are most impacted by new developments.\u00a0<\/li><li>Apply an equity lens to public consultations to make sure we aren\u2019t only capturing the voices of nearby homeowners when considering the impacts of a project<\/li><li>Make sure the voices of renters, first-time homebuyers, diverse communities, the working class, and other marginalized groups are represented in public consultations<\/li><li>Reform the DevApp portal to encourage balanced responses \u2014 the current system doesn\u2019t even provide an option to support a project, and encourages people to complain about projects<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa\u2019s public consultations on development are broken. Every new development should not be a political battle, waged between organized NIMBY groups and developers. We see the same delegations over and over at city hall and the broader public\u2019s voice is largely ignored. First, we should make zoning broadly more permissive and simpler, to avoid triggering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":107,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fix Public Consultations &#8211; Make Housing Affordable<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/makehousingaffordable.ca\/policy\/fix-public-consultations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fix Public Consultations &#8211; Make Housing Affordable\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ottawa\u2019s public consultations on development are broken. 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